Tyrese Maxey applauds Tobias Harris’ defense in Joel Embiid’s absence | NBA on ESPN

Tyrese Maxey applauds Tobias Harris’ defense in Joel Embiid’s absence | NBA on ESPN

You taking shots he want you to take a lot who who talking about talking about the coach Nick okay yeah I know so you said my man I don’t know who you talking about but the first 27 points I did you feel like this was the game you had to

Be all aggressive keep y all in there I mean you know started early was kind of Rocky you know they they came out and you know hit us in the mouth so I just want to be ultra aggressive to help my teammates get into the game you know

What I’m saying sometimes it happens like that and once we got into it and once we finally settled in we were good about talk about marus in the fourth quarter he had eight points one four point play foul shot and gra rebound yeah he’s been huge he’s been

Huge for since we got him you know since he’s settled into his role he knows what the coach wants from him he knows what we need from him and he’s been big you know he’s going out there he plays his Ro he’s a tough guy that we need you

Know the toughness he brings that leadership and uh we appreciate him you made a comment after the game where you Tobias and Joel all scored 30 about how Tobias does whatever’s asked of him every night without Joel he’s had 20 plus in every game he’s played great

Defense what what has he meant in these stretches where sometimes he’s needed to score more than other times you know he was big scoring wise tonight but I think the best thing he did was guard s goon down the stretch um we went small switch one through five and put Tobias on him

And Tobias you know he did a hell of a job guarding him and uh he stood him up a couple times and challenged him and he was big time last two games are the first two wins without Joel this season and I know that you’re not going to want

To have that many wins without him but is it nice to know that you can get it done whether it was sort of by committee the other night or you being the top option tonight yeah we knew that I mean we knew that you know Joel knows that

And he feels like he’s conf conf confident in us to go out there and perform if he’s you know if he’s ever hurt if he ever needs to off night or whatever so uh we’ve been great you know honestly I think our record doesn’t show it but um you know we’re starting to

Come along we know how we want to play we know how we want to defend and uh you know it’s going to be good for us you got to go out there tomorrow and try to do the same [Applause] thing

Tyrese Maxey speaks to reporters about his 42-point night and Tobias Harris’ performance in the Philadelphia 76ers’ 131-127 win over the Houston Rockets without Joel Embiid.

(Courtesy: “76ers/NBC Sports Philadelphia”)

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